With Aruba HybridControl, service providers can support more than 32,000
Wi-Fi hotspots with a single Aruba 7200 Mobility Controller at up to 40
times lower capital cost, 14 times lower power consumption and one-third
the rack space of competitive offerings. Each hotspot can be deployed
using multiple Aruba Instant access points, giving a single controller
the ability to aggregate in excess of 100,000 access points.

Aruba Instant access points in each site reduce core bandwidth needs by
offloading cellular traffic locally to the Internet and intelligently
centralizing necessary traffic, such as billing and legal intercept
using an IPSec connection to 7200 controllers deployed in the core.
Multiple controllers can be clustered in a resilient N+1 configuration
to scale out the architecture and deliver unprecedented scalability for
carrier Wi-Fi deployments.

With the rapidly emerging demand for hybrid offload and managed
services, a new requirement has emerged for the unique combination of
massive scale and enterprise-class capabilities across security,
management, quality-of-service (QoS) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
management. With Aruba HybridControl, massive scale is achieved and
layer 4-7 context via deep-level packet inspection is applied to
optimize the air and deliver application-centric security, visibility
and control for business-oriented, managed services traffic.

Delivering Best-in-Class Enterprise Features with Massive Service
Provider Scale

Leveraging a decade of delivering leading enterprise-class Wi-Fi
capabilities, Aruba HybridControl is designed to add value to
applications delivered to mobile devices from both the mobile core as
well as from Over-the-Top (OTT) applications running on the public
Internet. Industry-leading security capabilities are delivered via an
integrated firewall for role-based access, intrusion prevention services
and application-level security. HybridControl utilizes Aruba's AppRF
capabilities to identify and prioritize real-time applications such as
Microsoft Lync, and hosted and cloud applications that require a
different class of service than the default best effort service. Aruba
also delivers powerful Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) management
capabilities, including policy management, device onboarding, guest
access and device posture assessment with its ClearPass Access
Management System. Finally, Aruba controllers provide granular
location-based data, which can be leveraged for new business analytics
applications.

“The requirements for large-scale Wi-Fi deployments have rapidly
expanded with the acceleration of dual-purpose cellular offload and
managed services models,” said Richard Webb, Directing Analyst,
Infonetics Research. “Aruba’s HybridControl architecture is the
next-generation Wi-Fi solution that allows service providers to truly
expand their Wi-Fi footprint and add new billable services without the
accompanying expenses of traditional options.”

Accelerated Deployment with Aruba Activate

HybridControl significantly reduces the deployments costs for Wi-Fi
hotspots by up to 75 percent by offering zero-touch activation for
factory default access points without requiring any manual
pre-provisioning. Newly shipped factory default access points interface
with the Aruba Activate cloud service to discover the carrier's
configuration management system. Once they download their configuration,
the access points use their tamper-proof X.509 certificate to
authenticate with a mobility controller and setup an IPSEC tunnel.

At the same time, the Aruba Activate cloud service can also interface
with Aruba's ClearPass Policy Management platform located in the carrier
data center to authenticate the new access point to join the mobile core
network. This enables automation of a previously cumbersome and tedious
deployment process and dramatically reduces operational costs while also
ensuring the highest level of security.

“Aruba has leveraged a decade of innovation in enterprise Wi-Fi to
deliver a unique, carrier-scale architecture that addresses the most
significant challenges facing service providers today,” said Keerti
Melkote, CTO and Co-Founder, Aruba Networks. “With Aruba HybridControl,
Service Providers can offer managed services and cellular offload to
tens of thousands of locations while reducing the cost, footprint and
power requirements.”

The Aruba HybridControl architecture includes the following components:
the Aruba 7200 Mobility Controller, available now with prices starting
at $37,995 U.S. list; Aruba Instant access points, also available now
with prices starting at $395, U.S. list; Aruba Activate, available now
and free of charge for Aruba customers; the new 7200 Mobility Controller
software, which increases support to 32,000 hotspots on a single
controller, available as a free Aruba OS upgrade in the second quarter
of 2013.

About Aruba Networks, Inc.

Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access
solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company’s Mobile Virtual
Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network
infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate
headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers and guests.
This unified approach to access networks enables IT organizations and
users to securely address the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon,
dramatically improving productivity and lowering capital and operational
costs.

Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in
Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas,
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more,
visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com.
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